Lightship Chronicles Chapter 1 : First Horizon
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see it."
"I told you he's going to win-look! He just passed 6. He's in third place and moving faster, he's gaining on 13. Holly crap, he's going to pass 13."
"Oh-oh!" Andee muses.
"What-what? He just passed 13! He's in second place!"
"He better slow down."
"What do you mean slow down, he's gon'a pass ship5, he's gon'a take the lead!"
"He's dumb, he's coming up too fast on Tombstone. He's passing cuz everyone else is slowing down."
"He got it! Lightship 1 is up front now!" Mykee shouts in excitement.
"Goddamn it, he's not slowing down! He needs to slow down!" Andee shouts concerned. "Mykee squat down man, this dude is going to crash right into us!"
The ships are now moving at more than 300 kilometers per hour, with lightship 1 quickly approaching 400kph.
"Oh my God, here he comes, here he comes! Mykee down!"
And lightship1 takes the turn hard, heading up on the sheer wall vertically, but his momentum is just too great. As he tries to turn back down, the ship skids sideways right up the wall. A second later it spins over, and the top of the ship smashes into the southern edge of the outcrop tearing the ship to pieces, and breaking off chunks of rock from the edge. The impact is so brutal debris and dust fly up dozens of meters into the air, while chucks of rock are now falling like a storm of stone right onto the circuit and into the incoming ships. The spectators on the southern edge are knocked back both by the impact and the shock of it happening just meters under their feet. All leap or are thrown back half of which fall to the ground.
The first three lightships that were directly behind lightship1, 5, 13, and 6 are through, but lightship10 gets slammed hard by flying boulders and the saucer spins out of control crashing into the rock below. It skids like a mad sled down the steep and rough slope, but stays in one pierce.
The next two ships are just as unlucky and are damaged simultaneously. A boulder smashes right through the front windshield of lightship4 causing it to immediately crash a fraction of second after lightship10. Smaller rocks and boulders smash into lightship9 some of which get into the engine. Smoke bellows from the ship and it starts wobbling. Out of control, but still moving fast, it hits a protruding stone and tumbles violently down the slope breaking into thousands of pieces. Lightship8 passed through the stone storm untouched, by sheer luck, not any particular pilot skill, and is now in fourth place. Lightship15 finally chugs along unharmed as it passes by all the carnage in last place.
Up on top of the outcrop all the spectators survived only by the skin on their teeth. By some miracle not a single one was seriously harmed even though many were only an arm's length away from the debris flying upward during the impact. Dust, rocks, and ship parts, are now starting to rain down. The spectators on the outcrop are beginning to scramble and panic.
"Look! Look!" Mykee shouts pointing up into the air. "That's the bubble! It's still intact. Oh no, the pilot!" Mykee cuts himself off as he watches the transparent bubble, with the pilot still inside, stop from its vertical thrust only to then accelerate back down speeding faster and faster towards the jagged edges of the cliff below.
End of Chapter 1 next Chapter 2 : Rescue Hoppers
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